2020 Dodge Viper Mid Engine
Style

Chevrolet is advancing to bare their aboriginal mid-engine Corvette abutting year but, in an another universe, Chrysler would accept baffled them by about two decades.

2020 Dodge Viper Mid Engine
Specs and Review

According to Hagerty, Chrysler explored creating a mid-engine Dodge Viper in the mid 1990’s. As the aggregation was alive on the third-generation Viper, a aggregation of engineers pushed for a mid-engine architecture which would accept been a abolitionist abandonment from its predecessors.

Things reportedly kicked off in 1996 back engineers began administering a cardinal of packing and achievability studies. This eventually led to the conception of two board bucks which anniversary explored altered powertrain layouts. The bucks were reportedly created to see how abounding absolute Viper apparatus could be acclimated in the all-new archetypal as aggregation capital to accumulate costs down. As allotment of this effort, both were envisioned to use aforementioned advanced abeyance and council arrangement as the second-generation Viper.

2020 Dodge Viper Mid Engine
Speed Test

While some apparatus agitated over, the prototypes had a best wheelbase than the second-generation Viper and a lower hood. Unfortunately, admiral weren’t captivated with the results. As Chrysler’s above accepted administrator of baby car platforms, Chris Theodore, explained, “[Bob] Lutz was not as absorbed as the aggregation had hoped” and Chrysler architecture bang-up Tom Gale was “lukewarm to the car as well.”

The activity adjourned for a bit, but eventually led to the conception of a mid-engine GT concept. At atomic three calibration models were created, but the activity was eventually shelved afterward the blighted “merger of equals” with Daimler-Benz.

While that would commonly be the end of the story, Theodore larboard Chrysler and abutting Ford. He was still absorbed on the abstraction of a mid-engine supercar and eventually pitched Ford admiral the abstraction of a avant-garde GT40. They admired the abstraction and this eventually led to the conception of the 2005 Ford GT.

2020 Dodge Viper Mid Engine
Price

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2020 Dodge Viper Mid Engine
Specs

As of this writing, the 2020 Dodge Viper Mid Engine
sits atop our rankings thanks to its responsive engine, sporty handling, refined interior, and accommodating rear seats and cargo space. Although the changes for 2020 are minor, the 2020 Dodge Viper Mid Engine
was clearly in a good place already. When the 2020 Dodge Viper Mid Engine
goes on sale at the end of 2019, it will be offered in either front-wheel-drive sDrive28i or all-wheel-drive xDrive28i trim. Returning is the 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine (228 horsepower and 258 lb-ft of torque) as well as the eight-speed automatic transmission. 2020 estimates the 2020 Dodge Viper Mid Engine
will reach 60 mph in 6.3 seconds for xDrive and 6.6 seconds for the sDrive.

Pricing hasn’t been announced yet, but we expect it to cost about the same as the current 2020 Dodge Viper Mid Engine
, which starts around $35,000 for the sDrive28i and $37,000 for the xDrive28i. Check back with Edmunds for more information and impressions as we near the on-sale date.